27/09/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commissioner Mario Monti announced that he would soon propose to the Commission for it to open investigation procedures (under the "State aid" procedure), against the financial payment by Four Member States to their former electricity monopolies to compensate for the "stranded cost", in the framework of the opening up of the electricity markets to competition. Seven member States are involved: Spain, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands,...